Liberal Arts Services

Spring 2006

HIS 365G • Filipinos in the United States

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Location

Instructor

39005

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ALIDIO, K

Course Description

People, ideas and social movements have circulated between the United States and the Philippines over the course of the past century, especially after the Americans defeated the Spanish armada in the 1898 Battle of Manila and subsequently occupied the archipelago until 1946. Through military ties, cultural legacies and rhetoric, the colonial relationship persisted after the Philippines gained independence. We will examine how U.S. colonial and postcolonial cultures shaped Filipinos' lives in America. In secondary historical literature, primary source documents, fiction and essays, we will study the language used to enact, enforce and describe colonial power. How did the Philippine-American War and the U.S. policy of "benevolent assimilation" represent Filipinos as proper or unruly colonial subjects? How did Filipino immigrant's experience under U.S. tutelage shape their struggles for equality as ethnic minorities? How might we compare Filipino American social movements with those in the Philippines?

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